Nathan Vass
Nathan Vass is an artist, filmmaker, photographer, and author by day, and a Metro bus driver by night, where his community-building work has been showcased on TED, NPR, The Seattle Times, KING 5 and landed him a spot on Seattle Magazine’s 2018 list of the 35 Most Influential People in Seattle. He has shown in over forty photography shows is also the director of nine films, six of which have shown at festivals, and one of which premiered at Henry Art Gallery. His book, The Lines That Make Us, is a Seattle bestseller and 2019 WA State Book Awards finalist.
On the 7:
He looks gruff, plugged in to his headphones, light mustache and beard cut to angle downwards, as if to set his features...
"Well, you win the award for Mr. Conviviality," an elderly woman said to me as she deboarded on the tail end of the 10....
I realize in rereading this piece that it can be seen to function as a political endorsement. It was not intended as such, though...
People often ask me what "the most craziest thing" I've ever experienced on the bus is. Naturally there are far too many such incidents...
Jim is waiting at Walker Street, the first stop on the route 4. Normally he prefers to walk off his workday by strolling over...
"Thank you. I hope it's a pleasant rest of the evening for you," I say to someone at Third and Union, on a late-night...
I was riding the 7 one night, going out to Orcas to meet a friend. Rain peeled down from all corners of the globe...
"You're a foonie bus-drivin' horse master, y' know thaht?"
"Oh yeah?"
I'm strolling back to my bus one morning at Aurora Village Transit Center, after using...